Philipp Lamprecht
Email: philipp.lamprecht@ecipe.org
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Areas of Expertise: WTO and Globalization EU Trade Agreements Far-East Digital Economy

Philipp Lamprecht is a Senior Economist at ECIPE.
He previously worked as an External Consultant to the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate, specifically on a project analyzing trade in services. Since 2014, he has worked as a full-time Consultant of the London School of Economics (LSE) on a variety of projects, including the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment of the EU-Japan FTA negotiations for the European Commission (DG Trade), and a EuropeAid project on public procurement focusing on capacity building in the Caribbean region for the implementation of the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement.
Before joining ECIPE, he has also worked as a Project Manager on the European Commission’s Public Procurement Initiative (PPI). Before that, he has worked on a number of consultancy projects in the field of trade for the International Trade Policy Unit of the LSE, for example for the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament on the impact assessment of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement. He has gained work experience at the European Commission’s DG Trade in 2011, working with trade negotiators on EU-Japan economic and trade relations, in particular on the European Commission’s internal impact assessment report on the future of EU-Japan trade and economic relations.
He holds a PhD from the LSE with a specialization on International Political Economy. The PhD thesis, which he finished in 2014, lays a focus on economic diplomacy and bargaining power in international and multilateral trade negotiations. He holds a double master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and from the University of St. Gallen. He also studied Japanese Studies at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
His research interests include economic diplomacy, international trade, World Trade Organization, EU trade policy, EU-Asia trade and economic relations, and digital economy.
ECIPE Occasional Papers
The Role of Trade Policy in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
There is now a long history of countries improving sustainability standards in most parts of the economy while at the same time pursuing the ambitions of rules-based international trade and economic integration with other countries. It is not surprising that countries at the vanguard of sustainability also tend to be the countries that are most open to trade. This Report looks closer at the interplay between the formulation of domestic standards and provisions...
ECIPE Bulletins
Investment Openness in Europe: Investment Screening and Implications for EU-China Investment Relations
In the context of the proposal to establish an EU investment screening framework and the ongoing negotiations of the EU-China investment agreement, ECIPE in cooperation with the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) organised a discussion with stakeholders on the threats and opportunities of Chinese investments in European technology and European investments in China in September 2018. This bulletin is based on stakeholder opinions expressed during...
Five Freedoms
Cooperation in Europe’s Digital Economy: How do Countries Position Themselves?
Members of the European Union have different positions on matters of digital openness, and those differences typically reflect how the digital sector sit in national economies and the relative size of digital endowments. In this paper, we work with three groups of countries – digital managerialists, digital frontrunners, and digital convergers. These groups have gradually emerged over time and they think differently about the politics of reforms to open the...
Five Freedoms
The Next Steps for the Digital Single Market: From Where do We Start?
Digitization has been a boon to the European economy. However, the Digital Single Market remains an aspiration rather than a reality, and European institutions and Member-State governments have to redouble their efforts in the next years to create better and larger space for the digital economy to grow. Even if there is a great deal of variation between the performance of different EU economies, the EU is trailing behind many other economies and could increase the...
Media Mention
VDMA and EU discuss how to deal with investments from China
A summary of the event on the future of EU-China investment relations with representatives from the European Commission and the European Parliament...
Media Mention
Brexit and Services Trade
Erik van der Marel, Philipp Lamprecht and Roderick Abbott comment in Euractiv on Brexit and services...
Media Mention
UK imports and exports will suffer from Brexit isolation
Rodrick Abbott, Erik van der Marel and Philipp Lamprecht comment on Brexit in...
Media Mention
Brexit: The final countdown
Philipp Lamprecht comments on the process of future Brexit negotiations in The World...
Article
A European industrial policy for services: the Single Market
Philipp Lamprecht, Erik van der Marel & Oscar Guinea write about Industrial Policy for...
Article
ZPP and ECIPE discuss new efforts to create the Digital Single Market
Fredrik Erixon and Philipp Lamprecht comment on the questions of what are the key areas for digital change in the near future and how can Europe make...
Article
Speeding the Pace of Digital Change in Europe
Fredrik Erixon and Philipp Lamprecht comment in E!Sharp on how new coalitions in European digital policy can help EU member states to build capacity,...
Book or Paper
Are Services Sick? How Going Digital Can Cure Services Performance
Services make up the lion share of modern developed economies. But their productivity developments have often been lagging. In this study, we...
Book or Paper
The value of market access and national treatment commitments in services trade agreements
Philipp Lamprecht is co-author of this OECD Trade Policy Paper (No.213) which analyses the value of market access and national treatment commitments...
Book or Paper
Boosting Trade in Services in the Digitalisation Era
Study by the European Centre of International Political Economy commissioned by the Bertelsmann...
Book or Paper
Bargaining power in multilateral trade negotiations: Canada and Japan in the Uruguay Round and Doha Development Agenda
Philipp Lamprecht develops and applies a theoretical framework of bargaining power in international trade negotiations via a comparative analysis of...
Speech or Presentation
The EU’s Position on the WTO Reform and what’s ongoing
Philipp Lamprecht's presentation to CAITEC, MOFCOM, during a seminar on the theme of “World Trade Organization Reform and China EU Cooperation”...
Speech or Presentation
Boosting Services Trade in the Digitalisation Era
Erik van der Marel and Philipp Lamprecht discuss how countries can reach and extend their digital services trade potential in a Webinar organised by...